CNN's Faith and Values Correspondant is telling us about the rapture!

[Beelzebud]

I can't believe what I'm seeing. They are treating this as if it were a legitimate debate..

We're fucked, folks...

Scientists talking about global warming = crazy

Religious FREAKS talking about being raptured = reasonable question

Get me off this fucking planet...

[OwnedByFerrets]

1. You should be watching

Keith instead of this drivel. ;)

[newsguyatl]

2. i know, it's fucking absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zomby Woof]

3. I hear ya

Which is why I have Olbermann on.

The nation is awash in superstition and ignorance. Somehow, CNN's coverage is not suprising.

[salinen]

4. Xtianity

reminds people that they are glorius and deserving of everlasting life, as long as they never boink the same sex.

[rpannier]

5. I for one can't wait for the rapture

I'm planning on moving in to Pat Robertson's humble 20,000+ square foot mansion and driving around town in his modest limousine.
Pat does so much to emulate Jesus' life. Poverty, humility, love of one's neighbor, etc. I'm sure he'll be the first on that Jesus will take to heaven. No doubt he'll rule at God's left hand.

[SPKrazy]

17. Did You Ever Think That If There Were A "Rapture"

that Pat wouldn't be going anywhere

you might go though?

[rpannier]

47. I'll take that

either way I'm light years away from marion "pat" robertson.

[SPKrazy]

66. I Think That Most People Who Are Not In Prison

are light years away from "Pat"

he's a con man wearing a suit and tie and wrapping himself in the flag and carrying the bible

[ComerPerro]

6. That's the problem, same thing with ID vs Evolution

they give both sides equal weight, as though they are derived through the same methods and are both of equal merit.

[Beelzebud]

10. They didn't even do a "both sides" argument with this.

They just gave the rapture nutballs a megaphone, and let them spew that garbage un-challenged...

[ComerPerro]

33. You know what I really, really, really despise?

when nutball theories like this get treated like a serious issue by the media because they are part of a large religion *even though rapture freaks represent a very small percentage), yet the same media mocks things like Scientology and Astrology.

Sure, I think both of those are mostly a load of crap, but I think mainstream Christianity is too.

[Fridays Child]

7. Not again!

First, Kyra Phillips, then yesterday, Carol Lin. Now they're doing it again? I'd like to see them bring someone on who could explain what a monumental hoax the rapture is.

Yeah, that'll happen. :eye:

[Lars39]

8. I don't watch CNN.

:wtf: Do you mean to tell me they have a regular segment and reporter covering the Rapture?

[Beelzebud]

11. A Faith and Values Correspondant....

/me pukes..

[bdamomma]

37. me either, but how many do and believe this stuff

[Lars39]

49. And what happens when the Rapture doesn't happen?

But the congregations are already whipped into a frenzy?
I wonder if part of the population die-off bushco is wanting includes some of these churches Jim Jonesing?

[formercia]

59. Jim Jones punch by the bucketfull

Your space ship is waiting behind cloud nine.

[AntiFascist]

65. I just hope they look really stupid as they wait and the rapture....

doesn't happen. Problem is, then many in the US will become suicidal. Hope they don't take us all down with them.

[Beelzebud]

9. The treated it as a legitimate view. No sceptic voice to counter the BS

Un-fucking-believable...

Not one voice of reason. They just reated these crazy fucking nutballs like they are sane. One man even said god would soon intervene in Israel and vanquish their enemies for them....

[thepurpose]

12. What is the point of this kind of crap. We are going to destroy ourselves

before God has a chance to act.

[bdamomma]

39. yes we are.

[Beelzebud]

13. Jeez. Now they have Jerry Fallwell on there...

Oh fuck me...

This is the extremist nutball that said we deserved 9/11 because of gay people. And they still give him credence as a legitimate voice...

[cool user name]

14. Falwell is on ...

:puke:

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. CNN is doing an admirable job of indirectly pimping the Boy King as

God's instrument with all this Rapture crap. They are artfully presenting the mythical "Rapture" issue to give the whacko Christian fundies another subtle message that the problems in the ME are a good thing because it is God's will that the Kings of the world come to the Plains of Armegeddon and settle it once and for all.

Evil men have used these very ideas throughout the ages to kill untold millions in their quest for total power and riches. This is just the modern, high tech version of a very old ploy.

[Beelzebud]

16. She is now arguing with the guy against the rapture....

Never once did this fruity bitch challenge what Fartwell was saying...

[liberal N proud]

18. If you are driving down the road and you see cars parked everywhere

You will know that it has happened.
When it does, just choose from the best car left, maybe you can find a nice one and figure out where the fundies lived, at get a new home at the same time.

:rofl:

Look at it this way, if they are all swept away, maybe there will be less global warming, more oil to go around, the prices will drop and best of all... the entire bu$h regime would be gone, out of our hair.

:rofl:

[cool user name]

19. Well they have a counter view on ...

Don't know his name but he makes sense and he's a member of the clergy.

[Beelzebud]

20. And she challenges him, and lets Fartwell speak unchallenged.

[cool user name]

23. Fuck her ...

She just cut him off too.

I did like his saying:

"Scripture rejects that there is a heaven that leaves anyone behind."

(paraphrase)

[klook]

21. In the wrap-up,

both she and Paula Z. seemed to regard this (and the rapture zombies) as all a bit silly, so I wouldn't get too freaked out over the story.

[Beelzebud]

25. And then they came back from commercial and had Fallwell on...

And let him spew crap with no challenge, while their skeptic was cut-off mis sentence when he was trying to inject some sanity and reason into the "discussion".

[klook]

31. Ugh - I missed that part

What's next? "The earth--how do we know it's not flat?" Or "Could the moon landing have been faked?"

[Beelzebud]

22. "We'll have you back because this is an issue many Americans are

worried about."

Oh what a bunch of fucking bullshit. You mean the insane, relgious idiots are worried about it...

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. Yea, I'm worried alright. I'm worried that people actually believe this

crap and will help facilitate the end for us all. :banghead: Why can't people grow the fuck up and stop believing in this make believe shit? The World would be a better off.

[Atman]

24. Welcome to the New Dark Age.

"Don't you know
we're all light."

[MagickMuffin]

26. Apparently they are all Daisy Chained together CNN, ABC-GMA

They all seem to be more than happy to solicit just a few people more than willing to promote their apocalyptic values/views.

I was just stating today I was ready to go live on the parallel Earth. You know the Earth that doesn't have weapons or religion. The Earth where people choose to live anywhere they want without all the hostilities we have on this Earth.

Beam Me Up Scotty!

Here's a couple of links exposing the news promotion of the Apocalypse. Be sure to have a barf bag handy.:puke:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607270001?src=item200607270001

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607270006?src=item200607270006

[Beelzebud]

27. CNN - You're Dead To Me!

After that, I just removed CNN from my TV's channels. The only other station that had that honor, until now, was Fox News.

[Tsiyu]

28. You know I'd like to start a movement ( this is a joke and only a joke)

where we fake the fundies into believing they've been raptured.

Do any DUers have a few hundred acres in the desert they can spare?

We could dress up like angels and have some canned harp music and pull up in a Holy White Hummer.
They are so stupid, they would be convinced very easily.

Then we could lead them away to our facility in New Mexico where they can't bother us anymore.

They'll think they've been raptured; we'll finally have some peace.

Just an idea....

[longship]

29. You haven't seen the History or Nat'l Geog Channels recently.

Both owned by FAUX, they have been featuring the following:

The Rapture
The Anti-Christ
Revelation
Lots of other so-called Bible history (<=== oxymoron)

Also,

Bermuda Triangle
Mediums
Space alien abductions
Nessie, Yeti -- why not unicorns? And what's happened to all the zombies?
Tattoos! Fucking tattoos and piercing!!!

Don't forget... lots and lots of... You guessed it:
CROP CIRCLES!!!

And this is on the *EDUCATION* channels.

[Beelzebud]

30. Yeah I've complained about those channels for years.

I can't remember the last time I saw a show about real science on the Discovery or Learning Channels...

[IDemo]

32. Humanists Offer Cash for Rapture Victims

Someone posted this earlier: http://www.cfiwest.org/info/Rapture.htm

[mediaman007]

34. I think that its time to make that offer in a Letter to the Editor!

[RB TexLa]

35. Is it the same one who talked about there being a mass on Good Friday?

hard to listen to anything she says after that.

[bdamomma]

36. nothing like playing into Bush's hands

this is a cult.

[kineneb]

38. quick, get out the Pasta!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster will rapture us up into Pasta heaven, where there will be an inexhaustible supply of spaghetti, sauce and meatballs (and a vegetarian option), with garlic bread, green salad and red wine.

(just about as possible, and vastly more preferable, to me)

[Bill McBlueState]

40. you forgot about the beer volcano

and the stripper factory.

I mean, spaghetti's cool and all, but I converted for the beer volcano.

[kineneb]

51. works for me

and in FSM heaven, I won't have to worry about the beer and anti-depressants waltzing together in my bod. Pass the pitcher.

[eridani]

56. Ramen, brothas and sistahs, ramen!! n/t

[Dirty Hippie]

57. Delete

[gatorboy]

41. So basically if you don't have (Christian)faith, you don't have values?

Is that what the correspondant title implies? Oy!

[Beelzebud]

42. Apparently it's a matter of faith, and values, to believe in the rapture.

As an atheist, and someone who views rapture believers as just total fucking idiots, I guess I have no values.

[Hubert Flottz]

43. You can't get to heaven without one of these babys!

Cheap too...

http://www.jimbakkershow.com/store/item_swd_apoc.html

[WePurrsevere]

44. All this is, is another way to use fear to manipulate people. It's not

any different then other tricks and spin BushCo and the neo-CONs have used.

If it makes anyone feel any better there have been fundies preaching that the end is near almost since Jesus died. There have always been "signs" they could point to as they pick and choose what "gems" they want out of the Bible. Of course they fail to mention the signs that aren't fulfilled or even able to be fulfilled or that Jesus spoke about it all happening while some of those around him were still alive. (If that is true where are these 2000+ year old people?)

Fear is power to these people... they feed off of it... they get off on it... it's a drug they use to control the masses. Those who follow the teachings of Jesus don't use fear to manipulate... they live a life of love, giving and tolerance just because that is what he taught was the right thing to do.

If Jesus actually does come back, I suspect from my reading of his words in the Bible, that he will not be pleased nor impressed with the Falwell types at all.

[okieinpain]

45. that needs to be on a bumper sticker.... n/t.

[Bozita]

46. Fundies with nice cars should keep all maintenance records in the glovebox

It would be helpful to those of us left behind.

[Initech]

48. I'm so sick of hearing about the rapture, I could...

:puke:

[stop the bleeding]

50. we are truly fucked

fucked I tell ya.

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. how is it i am the first to R this? where r the other Rs?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

53. When the Rapture Comes, Can I Have Your Fries?

bumpersticker

[pauldp]

54. ...but talk about a stolen election and you're a conspiracy freak.

:nuke:

[Tsiyu]

60. Is that not the ultimate in mindfucks?

:wtf:

[aaronbees]

55. Rapture News Network (RNN)

The global warming vs. rapture treatment hits it right on the head. Another example of CNN, I mean RNN, trying to outfox Faux News.

[w4rma]

58. I'm not surprised that AOL-Time Warner would give these nutjobs a big

microphone. This is fundie owned AOL.

[Skidmore]

61. I do think that CNN believes they will be able to be able to do a

live broadcast of the rapture. I'll bet they have crews picked out already.

[Perky]

62. ummm?????

Get you off this planet? How Ironic is that. :rofl:

[PATRICK]

64. Laughing Christians

They were not so subtly mocking of a congregation that believed in the power of hysterical laughter. It was not funny to listen to the forced ruckus at one of their celebrations. To say the least, tongues were gently symphonic in comparison.

The more they show the cults the better no matter what their opinion, although it depends on the mind of the listener who can be seduced by the cult or the opinion maker. In fact I remember in the old days when the mainstream was more in tune with apocalyptic- before it degenerated to futuristic "cult" movies. Maybe it was the post-War blues and the Cold War fear. Hope was an afterlife commodity.

What people might do well is to switch the "end times" channel. Something is ending and it is hopelessness and staticity both. The world as we know it is ending and so will the human race but we know these are not pre-ordained hopeless scenarios with death as the conclusion. It is ALL supposed to be about hope, saving life and change. That is a very big thing way beyond the negative recidivism of Cold War despair. Twisting the hope of most of mankind, the awakened duty and the meaning of this world, this creation in progress, the shared realization, is the work of a sick minority that try to redefine reality to a past fantasy. If it was merely about succumbing to vertigo and jumping the gun of Armageddon in good faith it would be an alternative of sorts. As usual, a dying ideology becomes ornery, false and over the top, twisting even what it says it believes in to a collapsing selfish lie.

Our news people are just as incompetent and toolish foolish in the fields of science, politics and anything else- including sports and celebrities. No one is spared so if this is shocking put it alongside any respect that might linger for their other reporting and lose it- fast.